@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller)

We will be hosting 4th Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists hosted at UCSF in May 2027! We aim to build community and provide meaningful opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist at any training stage who wants to speak, plz fill this out by this 1/31: bit.ly/4kh5GFx

I think maybe I'll give these out to trick-or-treaters. www.aiweirdness.com/the-worm-wit...

Let’s Gooooooo! Midterm elections are here! Please make your voice heard by voting! Thank you, King County Elections, for making it so easy for citizens to participate in our democracy. I love receiving my ballot in the mail and dropping it in a box on my bike-commute to work

“On ChatGPT, rating a response with a thumbs up or down can make the entire associated conversation eligible for training even if you’ve opted out” Most importantly: “If it’s really sensitive, consider not using AI” www.science.org/content/arti...

It makes me really happy when organizations reward outstanding service. It makes me even more happy that someone as deserving as Erin Sheets won this award! Thank you, Erin, for all you have done for the biophysics community and the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social!

Insanity

Today (Oct 20) is the last day to donate to the UW Combined Fund Drive and get a $5 gift-card back... but you can keep making other donations all year! Today I donated to the Queen Anne Helpline, inspired by @joeveyera.bsky.social's dedication to help our Seattle neighbors

At the end of the work day, tired, empty-eyed Londoners mechanically eat bags of crisps outside at bus stops in the same way that tired, empty-eyed Berliners mechanically eat pretzels outside on train platforms

Awesome -- congratulations! Can you provide a link to the postdoc onboarding handbook for those of us outside Cornell to emulate?

A few ppl have dropped and we have slots open for this free, virtual coaching series starting tomorrow! We want to support faculty/staff/etc doing #SciComm research, teaching, and enabling in higher ed. Our series is NSF-funded as part of a larger study: how can we nudge academic culture?

PSA: For anyone writing a recommendation for the NSF grad fellowship this year, recs are due on Fri Oct 16, 8pm Eastern, cleverly *before* the actual application deadline. This tidbit isn't on the NSFGRF front page anymore; it's buried inside the program solicitation:

Hey UW colleagues -- the 2026 charitable giving season is here! Together, we've given on average $1.5M/year to the Combined Fund Drive. Plus, if you give a new or increased donation of $5 to ANY charity on the list by Oct 20, you'll get a $5 card for coffee. Details here: hr.uw.edu/cfd/2026/09/...

RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant software engineer whose code launched chaos theory and put the Apollo missions on the moon. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

To my Nederlands friends (old AND new): @pinkmartiniband.bsky.social is playing in Eindhoven on Friday, October 16, and there are still tickets! You can bring the family! Highly recommended. I know your agendas are usually set 3 weeks in advance, but this is worth an exception! pinkmartini.com/tour/

I was joking with my daughter that no magnets are allowed in this café, and, in an even better joke, she asked if I thought the outdoor seating counted as part of a multipole expansion. Totally cracked me up!

I had a truly lovely time at NWO Biophysics 2026. Great questions from trainees, in both the keynote and master class. Very grateful to @drjorine.bsky.social for inviting & introducing me, Daan Brinks for chairing the program committee, and Anastasia Vinogradova for expert organization. Plus, socks!

Has your school connected with a scientist yet this year? Skype a Scientist offers free connections with scientists for virtual Q&As with classrooms, libraries, clubs, and more! Sign up for a match at www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html 🖼️ by @hanfranstudio.bsky.social

Congratulations, Rumy @dimovalab.bsky.social!

Very excited to share that my department at @uwchemistry.bsky.social will be hiring an Assistant Professor of Chemistry! Come be my colleague at the University of Washington in Seattle! It is a wonderful city filled with wonderful scientists. Details in the link: ap.washington.edu/ahr/academic...

Come be my colleague at the University of Washington in Seattle! There are TWO tenure-track positions in Genome Sciences. @maitreya.bsky.social wouldn't ever say it, but she is a fantastic Chair and leader – you'll be in good hands

Hoping legal challenges at least delay this. It's sadly impressive that someone involved knows the things most likely to damage the US scientific enterprise

Reminder! THIS IS TOMORROW, September 15, 11am EST. Please join us! Details for how are in the ALT text of the original post's image! Also, due to some logistic-snafu a wrong Zoom link was sent, but you all received the correct one later by email, and will again receive it prior to the webinar!

Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

Hey UW colleagues and alums -- for tomorrow's Apple Cup, UW and WSU are competing to see which university can raise the largest number of individual donations towards their student food pantries. I just donated. Want to join me? Let's help UW students! together.uw.edu/i/uw/campaig...

Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

📣 I am super thrilled to announce that during “Emerging Science Week” the MSAF subgroup of the Biophysical Society will run a webinar with three awesome speakers on “Lipids Feeling the World.” More info, including how you sign up, is contained in the ALT text of the image! Please share widely! 🧪

NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This morning, I sat down with my coffee and started reading the news, got depressed, then switched to this delightful public lecture by Mo Das (@physbee.bsky.social) on percolation theory to describe cartilage. My day got a lot better

🔬 PhD position: use patterned light to locally trigger division & endocytosis in synthetic cells (#GUVs)! Join Dimova & Santer labs via IMPRS-FMD @mpici.bsky.social & @unipotsdam.bsky.social MSc in (bio)physics/chemistry/soft matter needed Apply by Sep 15: imprs.mpikg.mpg.de/project-2603/

Delta's "12Status" is back for the 2026 Seahawks season. Washington residents ages 18 and older can earn one mile for every Seahawks passing yard during all home and away games, along with priority boarding on flights from Sea-Tac, and a team store discount on the 12th of the month.

King County Library System cardholders can visit the Pacific Science Center for free today (Aug. 25), open until 5 p.m. Each card admits two adults and their dependents under 18 at no cost.

I picked up a copy of this book at this year's Cottrell Scholar Conference, and it is full of interesting tips from scientists in all sorts of leadership positions at their institutions. It is helpful to see the range of opinions and perspectives. The book is available for FREE as a pdf! Freeeeee!

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

We need YOU to spread the word about @skypeascientist.bsky.social - our *free* program that matches scientists w/classrooms & more! When educators sign up, they can tell us who told them about us. We'll hold a monthly drawing for $150 of science supplies* from the referrers! SkypeAScientist.com

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social -- I know you've got a TON on your plate right now (and always), but if you happen to know someone off the top of your head who is in the northeast US and would love one or two cats, I'm sure this person would appreciate it. And if not, no worries!

Good ideas in this thread for any conference organizers out there... Some of my favorite swag has been umbrellas and calendars (big ones, with lots of writing space). About half the T-shirts I own are from conferences, and they can be great if they are not entirely unisex (read: men’s) size large

Reminder: the deadline is this evening to submit comments about devastating changes that would allow political appointees to kill NSF grants at whim. I submitted mine. It was fast. I re-wrote my OMB letter with "Aligning the NSF’s GFA with OMB 2 CFR § 200 will harm the US because..."

Free seminar (just register) from the @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social on chemical & biophysical principles of how membranes interact with molecules around them, featuring Janice Robertson, Luca Monticelli, and @dimovalab.bsky.social. 8am for us West Coast researchers

Here's a list of @hhmi-science.bsky.social grants and award opportunities coming up, from undergraduate to faculty level, posted by the amazing @harmitmalik.bsky.social